GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |